{"id":1520762,"date":"2022-06-17T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520762"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:05:12","slug":"white-house-looking-into-reports-of-possible-capture-of-americans-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-looking-into-reports-of-possible-capture-of-americans-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"White House looking into reports of possible capture of Americans in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-looking-into-reports-of-possible-capture-of-americans-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2708407\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2708407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2708407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AP22069788639858.jpg\" alt=\"State Department spokesman Ned Price speaks during a news conference at the State Department, Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Pool)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2708407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Department spokesman Ned Price speaks during a news conference at the State Department, Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Pool)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN NEWSROOM<br \/>UPDATED 9:20 AM PT \u2013 Friday, June 17 2022<\/h5>\n<p>The State Department said a possible third American is missing in Ukraine. During a Thursday press briefing, spokesperson Ned Price said they received reports of an additional American who went to fight in Ukraine whose whereabouts are unknown.<\/p>\n<p>However, concerning the two veterans who also went missing, the State Department has not contacted Russia over the matter. The US veterans volunteered to help fight in Ukraine. On Thursday, the White House said they were looking into it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe don\u2019t know where their whereabouts are,\u201d stated White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. \u201cWe are working very hard to learn more about about this, about their, about these Americans who are now missing, our hearts go out to their families during this difficult time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to their families, 39-year-old Alex Drueke and 27-year-old Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh disappeared together near the city of Kharkov after their platoon came under heavy fire on June 9. Both Drueke and Huynh last communicated with their families on June 8.<\/p>\n<p>Huynh had served in the Marines for four years and was planning a wedding with his fianc\u00e9e when he felt pressed to go to Ukraine and help its government.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe just really want him back he\u2019s got such a big heart,\u201d said his wife to be Joy Black. \u201cHe knew this wasn\u2019t the easy thing, but this was the right thing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, during an exclusive with NBC News, Drueke\u2019s mother Lois received a call from one of her son\u2019s friends on June 13 that stated the mission had gone bad and after 36-hours everyone had come back except the two veterans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2722406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2722406\" class=\"wp-image-2722406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP22167620049662.jpg\" alt=\"This undated photograph provided by Diane Williams shows U.S. military veteran Alexander Drueke of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and his mother, Lois \" Bunny \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2722406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This undated photograph provided by Diane Williams shows U.S. military veteran Alexander Drueke of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and his mother, Lois \u201cBunny\u201d Drueke. Alex Drueke traveled to Ukraine to help with the fight against Russian invaders and was later reported missing. (Lois \u201cBunny\u201d Drueke\/Diane Williams via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Drueke previously served two tours in Iraq as a US Army service member and was said to be volunteering in Ukraine as a \u201ccivilian with army training.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cIf the worst were to happen, I would know that he felt fulfilled,\u201d stated Lois. \u2018And that he was content with what he had done and accomplished.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The US State Department has continued to urge Americans not to go to the country amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-hawley-documents-show-biden-admin-deeply-misleading-about-truth-board\/\">Sen. Hawley: Documents Show Biden Admin. \u2018Deeply Misleading\u2019 About \u2018Truth\u2019 Board<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Department spokesman Ned Price speaks during a news conference at the State Department, Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Pool) OAN NEWSROOMUPDATED 9:20 AM PT \u2013 Friday, June 17 2022 The State Department said a possible third American is missing in Ukraine. During a Thursday press briefing, spokesperson Ned Price &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}